Coronavirus

Healthcare workers including doctors, nurses and other medical staff around the world have been hailed as “the real heroes” for their selfless service and spirited fight against Covid-19. Meanwhile, a lady doctor in India decided to cheer her colleagues on the occasion of ‘Doctor’s Day’...

Bhubaneswar:  The Odisha government Friday fixed Rs 2,200 as the price for conducting the RT-PCR test to detect COVID-19 in private labs in the state, as per a notification. The state government also named four private laboratories, approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research,...

Even as Covid infections are rapidly rising in Rayagada district, Collector Pramod Kumar Behera said that as many as 74 persons in a village of this district tested positive for coronavirus Friday. Locals were panicked over possible community spread while the administration has started contact...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Friday said that 203 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 203 persons, 38 are from Ganjam, 37 from Khurdha, 19 from Gajapati, 18 from Cuttack, 18 from Jagatsinghpur, 12 from Sambalpur,...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 24 new coronavirus positive cases were detected in Bhubaneswar Friday taking the city's tally to 369. Out of the 24 cases reported Friday, 20 cases were reported from quarantine centres and the other four contracted the virus locally, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation...

Bengaluru: A Covid-19 patient hankering for a cup of tea ventured out a private hospital where he’d been admitted, leaving the authorities, a nearby chaiwallah and his customers tense. Guru (name changed), a resident of Nagarbhavi was admitted to Mysuru Road hospital after testing positive...

Bargarh: Police have registered a case against a person for revealing the identity of a COVID-19 patient on social media in Atabira locality of this town. The person has identified the patient as the wife of a doctor, informed district information and public relation officer...

Paris: France is to name a new prime minister ‘in the coming hours’, the country’s presidency said Friday, shortly after announcing Edouard Philippe’s resignation amid an expected reshuffle. Edouard Philippe had been the Prime Minister since 2017. President Emmanuel Macron is seeking to open a...

New Delhi: A large number of people showing no symptoms have tested for COVID-19. So the Union Health Ministry has revised home isolation guidelines. This has been done to include asymptomatic positive patients in the list of mild or pre-symptomatic coronavirus infection cases. However, patients...

London: Scientists have said that a variation in the genome of the novel coronavirus has improved its ability to infect human cells, and has helped it become the dominant strain circulating around the world. According to the research, published in the journal ‘Cell’, a variant...